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Protection in the ends of thumbs/fingers...
« on: February 04, 2015, 08:51:22 AM »

hi all,

i wanted to start a separate thread after seeing Chris' one about his really bad injury (get well soon, hope you are back for the season), to ask a few questions...

do we get enough protection in the ends of the thumbs/fingers of the gloves we buy? If not what could be done? etc...

i got hit right on the end of the thumb by a spinner (bowling loopy offies) last season and my thumb was bruised so badly i was out for 2 weeks! I'll add that i was wearing approx £40 gloves.

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Re: Protection in the ends of thumbs/fingers...
« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2015, 09:02:04 AM »

I think wearing the correct size gloves helps a lot here, I got hit on the thumb a few years ago and the hard plastic / rubber thimbel thing at the end got pushed up into my thumbb and took half the nail off.

It wasn't pleasant and I had to pull it off a few days later as it kept catching on things
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Re: Protection in the ends of thumbs/fingers...
« Reply #2 on: February 04, 2015, 09:08:27 AM »

If I remember correctly roots thumb break in the west indies was very much like mine.

I.e a glancing blow hitting the right thumb head on. As opposed to the usual crushing blows, where the ball.crushes the finger onto the bat handle.

The majority off gloves and there protection is made, an very good these days, to protect crushing of the fingers.
So I believe there is room to attempt to protect said incident but it will need a greater mind than me to come up with a solution to keep it light and compact. 



Amusingly there is a gm glove with extra thumb protection claimed to be "root" inspired. Yet he doesn't wear them?
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Re: Protection in the ends of thumbs/fingers...
« Reply #3 on: February 04, 2015, 09:15:54 AM »

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Re: Protection in the ends of thumbs/fingers...
« Reply #4 on: February 04, 2015, 02:23:37 PM »

Some gloves are a lot more protective than others in that area I'd say. Got pinged on the end of the right thumb by a bola last year while wearing mid-range puma gloves, it bloody hurt but no lasting damage. Wasn't that impressed with the protection. Having since bought a new pair of (Red Ink) gloves, I noticed that the cup in the end of the thumb on those is a lot more solid compared to the Pumas, so I'm pretty happy they'd protect me better if the same happened again.
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Re: Protection in the ends of thumbs/fingers...
« Reply #5 on: February 04, 2015, 03:22:06 PM »

i take the thimbles out of the thumb on all my gloves .......... much comfier
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Re: Protection in the ends of thumbs/fingers...
« Reply #6 on: February 04, 2015, 03:26:54 PM »

If I remember correctly roots thumb break in the west indies was very much like mine.

I.e a glancing blow hitting the right thumb head on. As opposed to the usual crushing blows, where the ball.crushes the finger onto the bat handle.

The majority off gloves and there protection is made, an very good these days, to protect crushing of the fingers.
So I believe there is room to attempt to protect said incident but it will need a greater mind than me to come up with a solution to keep it light and compact. 



Amusingly there is a gm glove with extra thumb protection claimed to be "root" inspired. Yet he doesn't wear them?


He uses the thumb protection, it's just on his Original gloves to match his bat i guess

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Re: Protection in the ends of thumbs/fingers...
« Reply #7 on: February 04, 2015, 04:57:10 PM »

Strange it is not offered on said gloves for retail..Atleast if you get a pair of originals.  You can definately say there "pro issue"


GLoves gloves gloves. As I'm off work. I looked at my.large selection of usable gloves (if I get bored my look at some.oldwr spec gloves I still have see if anything improved)


Anyway 5 sets of gloves.  3 sausage 2 split.

In order I rate protection.

B3 2015 sausage. £50
Gray nics prestige £45
Gray nics kaboom £50
B3 2013 splits.... £20 second hand.
GM 808 le. £35 quid.



when in a game I always wear sausage. Prefer the protection. Prefer the feel. The splits in own are for indoor and winter nets where the mats offers no bounce.

One thing I have discovered is weight seems to equal protection.or seems that way to me.











I am concluding that the more splits the glove has the more.protection is removed. And the lighter the glove. Hence the b3 being heavier than the grays. As it has a 2 piece thumb. Not a 3 piece like the grays.


Also noticed the grays prestige and kaboom.are basically the same gloves. Very very small differences.







The b3s differ from the grays by the sausage not continuing past the knuckles. Which gives a bit more flexibility. But just as much finger protections (both are sausage style with a ribbed plastic over the top).
B3 has more protection in the thumb. Thimble and foam seems thicker.





The split gloves. Very very light.  Very very flexible. But protection doesn't feel anywhere near as good as the sausages.

Also noticed the gms build. Quality isn't as hire.  If you look at the index fingers side protection on the gm it has collapsed without a hand in. Where as all the other gloves here. It stays in to shape and rigid.
It does not fill me with confidence in terms of both protection and longevity of the glove.






my advice.  If you care for protection or play a high level. Buy sausage fingered gloves.
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Re: Protection in the ends of thumbs/fingers...
« Reply #8 on: May 12, 2015, 07:05:17 AM »

I've got GM original LE 2015 and i think finger protection is awesome but extremely poor on the thumb, if i hold the bat and simply throw the ball at my thumb from like 2 feet and gently, even that hurts.
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